Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Preproduction Software is Now Available!

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Preproduction gives our customers with active maintenance a chance to become familiar with the exciting new capabilities expected in the production release and determine how these enhancements can deliver the greatest impact to their product development process. This is your opportunity to provide feedback to PTC R&D, and help us to deliver an exceptional production release. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Preproduction offers numerous enhancements that optimize global design processes including electro-mechanical design. Highlights of this Preproduction release are listed below:

Global Design Process Enhancements

• Optimize Detailed Design - Create both simple and complex designs faster with improved assembly performance, new Auto Round^TM capabilities, advanced surface editing, automated 3D drawing annotations, and more
• Optimize Manufacturing Tooling & Factory Equipment Design - Simplify and automate the transformation of engineering designs into manufacturing processes with an easy to use, powerful process manager tool for toolpath definition, annotation features, and other key tasks
• Optimize Verification and Validation - Analyze your designs faster and easier with smart diagnostics, improved meshing, better assembly connectivity management and analysis of results

Electro-mechanical Design Enhancements

• Faster Detailed Design - Create electro-mechanical designs faster with intelligent, automated capabilities for adding and routing ribbon cables
• Faster Verification and Validation - Accelerate design collaboration with a new associative interface between MCAD and ECAD designs. Automatically identify incremental changes and cross-highlight between MCAD and ECAD board designs

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Preproduction contains many more new capabilities that will improve your personal and process productivity. For more information about what's new, please review the Product Release Notes and the Top 10 Reasons To Try Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Preproduction.

You can also test drive several of the top enhancements with this tutorial. Please download the tutorial kit, which includes all models, and follow the simple instructions provided.

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to try out the latest enhancements today!

Maintenance customers, download the software:
Order or Download Software Updates.

Preproduction software for this release is available in English, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.

Find out more about ECAD-MCAD Collaboration capabilities.

If you have technical questions or feedback on the Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 Preproduction release, please contact PTC Technical Support.

The timing of any product release, including any features or functionality, is subject to change at PTC's discretion.